Tension Quotes
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.
Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.
No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.
The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.
The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Do you agree that when theres tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.
A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.
I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.
